As a recipe for losing weight, taking a slice of chocolate cake at breakfast would seem an unlikely fantasy.

A team from Tel Aviv University found that eating pudding as part of a balanced 600-calorie breakfast that also included proteins and carbohydrates (碳水化合物), could help dieter to lose more weight---and keep it off in the long run.

Attempting to avoid sweets entirely can create a psychological addiction to these same foods in the long term. So adding desserts to breakfast can control craving(渴望) throughout the rest of the day.

Over the course of a 32-week-long study, participants, who added desserts to their breakfast lost about 40 pounds more than a group that avoided such foods. What’s more, they kept off the pounds longer.

A meal in the morning provides energy for the day’s tasks, aids in brain functioning, and kick-starts the body’s metabolism (新陈代谢), making it decisive to weight loss and maintenance. And breakfast is the meal that most successfully regulates ghrelin, the hormone that increases longer. While the level of ghrelin rises before every meals, it is controlled most effectively at breakfast time.

The researchers hoped to determine whether meal time and composition had an impact on weight loss in the short and long term, or whether it was a simple matter of the caloric count.

1. According to the passage, the underlined word “it” in paragraph 2 probably refers to __________.

A. the calorie B. the breakfast

C. the craving for pudding D. the lost weight

2.Adding some desserts in your breakfast diet properly will __________.

A. make you gain more fat

B. make you become slim more easily

C. help improve your psychological health

D. help develop your craving for more delicious food

3.Through paragraph 5. the author wants to show__________ .

A. the special function of ghrelin

B. some decisive ways of losing weight

C. the great importance of breakfast to us

D. the nutrition we should take in during the breakfast

4.What will the passage develope next?

A. Another experiment on weight loss.

B. An importance of calorie.

C. People’s breakfast time.

D. The composition of the breakfast.

The story happened years ago,when my daughter was still little.

I was driving across the country with my daughter to ____ my husband. Since I intended to get to my destination before supper time, I drove ____ for a long time without a stop. Then after driving for many miles, I became tired and needed to stop for a break to get ____.

I found a rest area. It was mostly deserted, in a quiet area of the highway. I parked the car and carried my ____ into the restroom. When I came out I saw a middleaged __ _ wandering around. Feeling ____ about that, I asked the lady. What ____ me was: they were waiting for us!

The lady told me that she and her husband wanted to see us safely back into our ____. She explained that sometimes rest areas could be a ____ place for a young lady like me. She told me that she had a daughter almost my age, so they wanted to make sure that I got safely back on my way.

I was very touched by their ____. Being young, and probably naive to the potential ____ of rest areas, it had never occurred to me that there was any possibility of something going wrong. I ____ them for their kindness. My daughter and I continued our journey and ____ our destination safely.

I never got their names but years have passed and their kindness is still not ____. Sometimes angels come in makeup and just because you can't see their ____ it doesn't mean they aren't angels.

1.A. desert B. stop C.join D.save

2.A. slowly B.quickly C.safely D.quietly

3.A. excited B.bored C.interested D.refreshed

4.A. daughter B.luggage C.license D.car

5.A. lady B.man C.couple D.angel

6.A. angry B.curious C.jealous D.terrible

7.A. surprised B.worried C.annoyed D.upset

8.A. room B.car C.area D.park

9.A. quiet B.noisy C.dangerous D.safe

10.A. devotion B.honesty C.potential D.consideration

11.A. stops B.dangers C.mistakes D.changes

12.A. forgave B.asked C.thanked D.blamed

13.A. reached B.left C.missed D.passed

14.A. seen B.forgotten C.deserted D.recognized

15.A. kindness B.safety C.faces D.wings

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